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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Dominique Hawkins of Preservation Design Partnership

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, climate heritage, coastal heritage, Community Preservation, Cultural landscape, damage, flood insurance, Foodways, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic streetscape, house and structural moves, keeping history above water, Local Preservation, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation Conversations & Controversies, Safety, Women in Preservation / By Danielle Keperling

Dominique Hawkins, founder and managing principal of Preservation Design Partnership based in Philadelphia, PA, joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss flood mitigation in historic areas. We covered multiple topics, including: Dominique’s background in design, architecture, and historic preservation, including her early career transition from architecture for housing developments to the world of historic preservation, …

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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Briana Grosicki of PlaceEconomics

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, architectural salvage, Community Preservation, Economic benefits of preservation, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic Preservation Tax Incentives, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic streetscape, Inclusivity, Local Preservation, Maintaining Historic Buildings, maintaining your historic home, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation and Economics, Preservation and Sustainability, Preservation Conversations & Controversies, Preservation Education, Rehabilitation, Salvaged materials, Why Preservation Matters, Women in Preservation / By Danielle Keperling

Briana Grosicki, associate principal of PlaceEconomics based in Washington, D.C., joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss the economic benefits of preservation. We covered multiple topics, including: Briana’s background, including growing up regularly visiting local battlefields in Virginia, volunteering with her main street district as a teen, to working with Donovan Rypkema Briana’s additional roles …

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Coffee Break RECAP: Existing Building Codes

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, Building Codes, Coffee Break Recap, Contractor, Energy efficiency, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, historical integrity, historical interiors, Home exterior, home interiors, house and structural moves, Local Preservation, Maintaining Historic Buildings, maintaining your historic home, Preserving a building, Rehabilitation, Replacement in kind, Resources for Historic Restorations / By Danielle Keperling

COFFEE BREAK RECAP – This month’s “coffee break” video recap focuses on how to navigate the existing building code and uniform construction code within your historic building project in Pennsylvania. Watch below. VIDEO SUMMARY: Focus: Exemptions (Existing Building Code) and things liable to the Uniform Construction Code, depending on the parameters of a historic …

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LABOR DAY: Preserving its meaning, sustaining our workforce

Leave a Comment / cultural assets, Cultural landscape, Economic benefits of preservation, Historic Preservation, Iron work, Local Preservation, Museum, Preservation and Economics, Preservation Musings, Skilled labor, Skilled labor shortage, State Preservation, Tradesman, Tradespeople, Why Preservation Matters / By Danielle Keperling

LABOR DAY – although it was yesterday, we feel it’s timely to discuss it. Now known as the unofficial end of Summer, a time for store sales, or an extra long weekend for some. But the history and meaning behind the day represent the struggles of laborers in the American workforce, and collective issues that …

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Design Defect Allegations lead to Replacement Window Lawsuit

Leave a Comment / Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic Wood Windows, maintenance free trap, Preservation Musings, Products & Materials / By Danielle Keperling

A few months ago I came across an article from DWM Magazine (DWM = Door and Window Market) about a lawsuit filed on Oklahoma against Pella Corp by a homeowner that alleged the Architect Series windows have design and manufacturing defects as result they are leaking and causing premature wood rot and damage. You can …

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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring the Meyers of White Chimneys

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, Colonial Architecture, Community Preservation, cultural assets, Cultural landscape, Help for Historic Business Owners, Help for Historic Home Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic Reconstruction, Historic Rehabilitation, Historic Restoration, Indoor Air Quality, Local Preservation, Maintaining Historic Buildings, maintaining your historic home, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation and Restoration Case Studies, Products Materials and Methods, retrofitting / By Laura Kise

Jack and Jessica Meyer – father-daughter owners of White Chimneys in Gap (Lancaster County), PA – joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss their property’s history and their business. We covered multiple topics, including: The Meyers’ realization of their historic preservation values through the purchase and renovation of White Chimneys over the past 15 years …

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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Jeffrey Marshall of Heritage Conservancy

Leave a Comment / architectural style, Community Preservation, cultural assets, Cultural landscape, Help for Historic Home Owners, help for historic homeowners, Historic Preservation, Historic preservation and restoration education, Historical Architecture, History education, Inclusivity, Local Preservation, period architecture, planning, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation and Sustainability, Preservation Education, Preserving a building, Sustainability, Why Preservation Matters / By Laura Kise

Jeffrey Marshall, the president of Heritage Conservancy in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss the organization’s mission and work conserving and preserving a combination of natural and cultural heritage resources in Southeastern Pennsylvania. We covered multiple topics, including: Jeffrey’s background combining his lifelong loves of nature, history, and architecture with his graduate …

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Practical Preservation Podcast Featuring Lindsey Bennett of KIZ Resources, LLC

Leave a Comment / adaptive reuse, Community Preservation, Economic benefits of preservation, Help for Historic Business Owners, Historic Preservation, Historic Preservation Tax Incentives, Historic Rehabilitation, Local Preservation, Maintaining Historic Buildings, Practical Preservation Podcast, Preservation and Economics, State Preservation, Tax / By Laura Kise

Lindsey Bennett of KIZ Resources, LLC, joined the Practical Preservation Podcast to discuss the company’s tax credit transfer services. We covered multiple topics, including: Origins of the company – originally named for the Keystone Innovation Zone Tax Credit (KIZ) – and their focus on state and federal tax credit transfers for businesses Their specialized services …

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Out of the Mouths of Preservationists: Common Preservation Terms Explained

Leave a Comment / Community Preservation, Historic Preservation, Historic Restoration, Local Preservation, Resources, State Preservation / By Danielle Keperling

There is even more great content here and it’s all available for members! Sign up for a membership to the Keperling Preservation Hub℠ and you’ll get instant access to: One on one consultation call Coffee Breaks: twice-a-month web meetings where we answer questions YOU and other members submit How-to Videos, Training Videos, and Coffee Break …

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Traditional Joinery

Leave a Comment / Help for Historic Home Owners, help for historic homeowners, Historic Preservation, Historic preservation and restoration education, historical integrity, How to Preserve a Building, Materials, Products Materials and Methods, Resources, Traditional Joinery, Wood & Millwork / By Danielle Keperling

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